It's the first I've heard about it and I tend to doubt it.

 

these are the links I can find so far. One mentions an FDA report but can't find
much about it.

Tainted Chicken Warning - Raw Food Diet Forum
Raw Feeding Tips! | Facebook
Yahoo! Groups
Yahoo! Groups
Organic Chicken Tainted - This Forum is brought to you by The Mastiff Sweet Spot and Friends of the Forum.
Organic Chicken Tainted - This Forum is brought to you by The Mastiff Sweet Spot and Friends of the Forum.

There's also a link to a post on one of the Great Dane forums,
unfortunatly I can't get to that one since I'm not registered on
that forum.

Marty

 

It is true that "they" had to pull a ton of meat recently but I do not know if that includes this particular meat.

 

So far, I see nothing authoritative. Until I see something from some news orginization or gov't or the company in question, its nothing more than internet hysteria.

 

Agree, it is all the same post getting reposted and they don't know if it was that chicken or not. Dogs do eat stuff we don't know about. It would take a good long time for chicken meant for human consumption to be pulled if a couple dogs that ate it got sick. One would hope the processor would check the lots fed for bacteria though. If that bug is that bad humans would fall ill as well, hand washing can only do so much.

 

Was just posting a new thread on this...and I'm glad I did a search....were getting warnings here in Central FL too...

Evidently there have been serious repercussions from some tainted chicken sold
at Costco. This might be limited to the west coast, I'm not sure. Already 1 dog
has died (this is not a rumor, the owner is a member of a different list I
belong to) and many have become ill.

The product is sold under the name of Coastal Range Organic or Coastal Valley
Organic. I'm not sure who the actual supplier is. The Costco website has nothing
on this matter. But if you search the web for Costco tainted chicken, you'll see
several postings on the matter.

Please let your fellow raw-feeders know so they can be aware..

 

Evidently there have been serious repercussions from some tainted chicken sold
at Costco. This might be limited to the west coast, I'm not sure. Already 1 dog
has died (this is not a rumor, the owner is a member of a different list I
belong to) and many have become ill.

I hope this doesn't sound cold, but until they do a necropsy on the dog there is no way to know if it was the chicken. Dogs eat things they shouldn't all the time.
The raw chat I read said it was two sick dogs.

I'm glad there is a warning for now. I asked my husband to pick up chicken from Costco last week, but he couldn't find what I asked for. I'm glad he didn't!!!! I bought some organic chickens from Trader Joe's.

I hope they do a necropsy.

 

I was thinking the same thing that humans would likely get sicker faster if eating tainted meat as our body is not made to handle it but then I thought that maybe once you cook the chicken all the bad bacteria is killed and it only affects the raw. They probably won't recall unless it affects humans.

 

This is from our co-op email list.

This came in from my IWBarf group -
Permission to cross post given -
includes warning about Texas-0

Maureen Palumbo


Hi, Everyone.
This just came in via my raw feeding coop. Mary
personally knows Krystal and her dog who died,
via her English Shepherd group. Heads up,
everyone who shops at Costco.
I have included the first message I got as well
as the text from an update, which contains more
detail including the brand of chicken.
hugs,
Nikki

At 3:13 PM +0000 6/1/11, Mary Atleson wrote:
>Warning! I have now received 2 separate reports
>of dogs getting sick (one almost died) from
>Costco organic chicken. Please do NOT feed this
>to your raw fed dogs and if you already have,
>please watch them. Do not eat it yourself. Dogs
>vomit the chicken shortly after ingestion or
>flat out refuse to eat it. The vomit has a
>STRONG metallic smell and other dogs will avoid
>the vomit (which is atypical dog behavior). One
>report was from WA state, 1 from MD. In both
>cases all dogs that ate the meat vomited and one
>who took longer to vomit almost died...he is
>still struggling. To those of you who have
>English Shepherds, the one who almost died in WA
>is Krystal's dog, Eoin.
>
>Mary
>

At 6:14 PM +0000 6/1/11, Mary Atleson wrote:
>It is looking bad. Here is the update just in from another forum:
>
>This is an update............
>Krystal asked me to email the group and give you the news and warn everyone.
>Her HEART dog Eoin has passed away. Her female Greer is doing fine.
>She is beside herself, and I understand and feel her grief, this is so wrong.
>She fed her dogs Coastal Valley Organic Chicken
>from Costco. The vet that was working with her
>told her she had not seen anything like this in
>her 40 years as a vet. Reminder, her bitch
>threw it up shortly after eating it, her male
>who passed away did not. HEr bitch also was self
>medicating on the property and was feeling quite
>ill.
>There is another person in NE WA (where Krystal
>is and where she bought the meat) that has a
>sick dog and has also lost a dog to the same
>food.
>Apparently there are other cases in TX and MD.
>This is super scarey.............please feel free to cross post!
>Laurie

 

Coastal Range "organic" chicken is owned by Foster Farms. What does that tell you? Their label says, "No ADDED hormones or antibiotics", which means it's already in their feed. The chickens are anything but free range. They are not individually caged, but not free range, they do not eat grass and they are literally standing knee deep in their own feces and are crowded together in one big cage. All for what? Your money, of course. Simply put - they lie to get the green out of your wallet.

If you really want to feed your dog true free-range and organic, buy your meat from Trader Joe's.